Science: AIDS Anxiety

In Boston, a 46-year-old medical technician lay dying of acquired immune
deficiency syndrome last week. Before he became too ill to speak, he
insisted that he did not belong to any of the four high-risk AIDS
categories: homosexual men, intravenous drug users, Haitians and
hemophiliacs. Instead, he blamed his illness on accidentally pricking
himself with a needle while taking blood samples at the laboratory
where he worked.

In England, a nurse at an undisclosed hospital became ill after pricking
herself with a syringe containing blood drawn from an AIDS patient. For
more than 20 days she suffered from the...